A BARMY old goat, who describes himself as a “proud primitive” rabbi, caused outrage in Israel when he offered, on TV, to usher a family into a state of mourning – because they have a lesbian daughter.
After hearing a young religious lesbian say that her parents did not welcome her and her partner on the [...]
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ORTHODONTISTS and dentists in Israel’s ultra-Orthodox neighbourhoods are bracing themselves for a big rise in demand … for braces that women can simply pop out their gobs.
A run on removable braces is anticipated following a new halachic ruling by the leader of a Lithuanian Jewish faction, Rabbi Yosef Elyashiv, that effectively forbids adult women from [...]
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A US Airways passenger plane was diverted to Philadelphia earlier today after religious paraphenalia worn by a Jewish passenger was mistaken for a bomb, Philadelphia police said.
According to this report, a passenger was alarmed by a ludicrous arrangements of two small black boxes affixed to the man’s arm and head by thin black straps.
The ridiculous [...]
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A couple from the US state of Georgia was recently arrested for tattooing six of their seven children with crosses. The mother bemusedly commented:
I’m their mother. Shouldn’t I be able to decide if they get one?
No, madam, you shouldn’t. Children are not possessions; parents do not own them. They are human beings with inalienable human [...]
A TEAM of researchers in Israel think they may have found a cure for religious fasting headaches suffered mainly by devout Muslims and Jews.
Every year millions of Jews fast on their holiest day, Yom Kippur, and many more millions of Muslims fast for the month of Ramadan. And every year, as many as 40 percent [...]
AN all-out brawl between two factions of ultra-Orthodox (haredi) Jews broke out at the weekend in Israel.
According to this report, hundreds of Haredim were embroiled in an affray that broke out in Ashdod’s Zayin quarter after member of Belz and Ger Hassidic sects claimed that rowdy yeshiva (religious college) dropouts were behaving badly in [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
